Niehaus on Frick Ballot

http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/news/2005/051206.htm

(COOPERSTOWN, NY): The 10 finalists for the 2006 Ford C. Frick Award have been selected, and the ballot features three candidates chosen by fans in an exclusive online vote conducted in November at www.baseballhalloffame.org. The remaining seven broadcasters were chosen by a research committee from the Cooperstown-based museum. The 10 finalists for the 2006 award, with the winner to be announced on Feb. 21:

Tom Cheek
Bill King
Ken Coleman
Tony Kubek
Dizzy Dean
Denny Mathews
Jacques Doucet
Graham McNamee
Gene Elston
Dave Niehaus

Throughout the month of November, more than 105,000 fan votes were cast exclusively at the Hall of Fame's Web site - the highest vote total in the three-year history of the online fan voting component to determine Frick ballot selections -with King (25,380), Niehaus (17,091) and Doucet (15,002) selected by fans for the ballot through the online vote. The final ballot, also containing seven selections from a Hall of Fame research committee, features a mix of pioneers, early radio stars and current-day broadcasters. Five of the 10 members of the Frick Award ballot are living.